Kanji 電 — "Electricity"
Here is what 電 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Electricity" stick.
How it is read
でん
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
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the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
Thunder from lightning strikes — that's how Electricity flows into your home!
- 雷 Thunder
When Rain pours over the Rice Paddy, lightning flashes and Thunder roars across the sky!
Words that use 電
12 of 24 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 電話 でんわ telephone
- 電車 でんしゃ train
- 電気 でんき electricity, light
- 電源 でんげん source of electricity, power (e.g., button on TV)
- 電波 でんぱ electro-magnetic wave
- 停電 ていでん failure of electricity
- 電池 でんち battery
- 電子 でんし electron, electronic
- 電球 でんきゅう light bulb
- 電報 でんぽう telegram
- 電力 でんりょく electric power
- 電流 でんりゅう electric current
Want 電 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
